Paladin Updates

[Treach]

Healing probably. A PLD can take less dmg and self-heal as long as they bring ethers. A WAR cannot. The trade-off between WAR and PLD is down to dmg and hate-control. A PLD is easier to keep alive, but does less dmg. A WAR is harder to keep alive, but does a lot more dmg. WAR for speed run, PLD for long and drawn-out battles. It doesn't require fanboy opinions to come to this conclusion. Ppl are just too close-minded and insist on class/job elitism when there's little reason for it.

Yeah overall, with the current content, WAR > PLD for tanking...cuz there really is no long drawn out battle that would require a PLD's skillset. But if a speed run isn't the goal, i'd take PLD over WAR every time. Requires less WHMs (unless PLD fails to bring ethers), and frees up a slot for another DD. So now that I think about it, PLD could work in a speed run too.

Community lacks the ability to think outside the box and change party-setups to fit certain jobs. A WAR tank and a PLD tank should have different party setups...all range DD's and all melee DD's should also require different tank/healer setups. But as always ppl are sheep, and only blindly follow what the guy in front of them is doing without ever bothering to think for themselves.

Thing is you have to take two whms for both AV and CC just due to the damage taken by everybody in the fight, a single whm can't heal the tank and the blms in ant fight, a single whm is extremely dangerous for chimera if the tank gets hit by a ws while ants are beating on people, too many adds for a single whm to heal on the av end boss, cyclops might be one maybe if you are lucky, moogle fight takes two also if just because rng can kill you.

Only fight that it is somewhat safe for just one whm is ifrit, that I have done before as both tank and cnj.

Just because you have a PLD doesn't mean you can drop a WHM for a dps, thats just crazy.

Also I'm not playing favorites with jobs, I go play whatever works best. If suddenly another class becomes the most efficient tank I'll swap to it, same goes for DPS classes.